Woohoo! Nothing can go wrong now, right?*
Carbon Tax passes Lower House
CEF: What the academics say Haha, all the others were all full of fancy important opinions which, valid of course, but this guy was my fave:
Prof John Foster, Director of the UQ Energy Economics and Management Group at The University of Queensland: It is NOT a ‘carbon tax’!! It is an emissions trading scheme with a temporary fixed price period (all such schemes have a temporary period where there is a fixed price as the system beds down).
I really despair when even science journalists are completely incapable of being clear on this and, in so doing just confuse the public, many of whom still think that they will see a carbon tax charge on their receipts, just like the GST.
Sadly, I am finding it hard to disagree with this nowadays. Democracy is failing the planet
I'm reading Bill McKibben's "Eaarth",
Transcript of McKibben's interview with Scientific American here
I’m only 60 pages in. Right now it’s all “so this thing is happening, and it’s releasing huge amounts of carbon, oh, and over here this thing is happening and releasing huge amounts of carbon, oh and over in that country, this thing is happening that’s, you guessed it, releasing huge amounts of carbon”.
I’m hoping for some hope, eventually.
only very slightly sarcastic
CEF: What the academics say Haha, all the others were all full of fancy important opinions which, valid of course, but this guy was my fave:
Prof John Foster, Director of the UQ Energy Economics and Management Group at The University of Queensland: It is NOT a ‘carbon tax’!! It is an emissions trading scheme with a temporary fixed price period (all such schemes have a temporary period where there is a fixed price as the system beds down).
I really despair when even science journalists are completely incapable of being clear on this and, in so doing just confuse the public, many of whom still think that they will see a carbon tax charge on their receipts, just like the GST.
Sadly, I am finding it hard to disagree with this nowadays. Democracy is failing the planet
I'm reading Bill McKibben's "Eaarth",
Transcript of McKibben's interview with Scientific American here
I’m only 60 pages in. Right now it’s all “so this thing is happening, and it’s releasing huge amounts of carbon, oh, and over here this thing is happening and releasing huge amounts of carbon, oh and over in that country, this thing is happening that’s, you guessed it, releasing huge amounts of carbon”.
I’m hoping for some hope, eventually.
only very slightly sarcastic